The corporate media, aka msm (mainstream media), is singing “Chickenshit Netanyahu” with all the surprise and extravagance of a flash mob at the mall. But the stink isn’t chickenshit, more like an old elephant with diarrhea. What’s going on?
We can start with media basics. Nothing gets to dance center stage in the media spotlight unless the producers of the show write it into the script. Why this chickenshit theater all of a sudden? The smoking gun (or a pile of smoking shit) comes from an undisclosed “senior US government official”. No newspaper with more than two grams of integrity would print such a quote without a source. Any undisclosed anybody can say anything. It’s not news and it doesn’t qualify for print. We should also note that the supposed statement originated from a hack whose journalistic reputation squats lower than a barnyard gossip.
Besides, US government officials say a lot worse about Israel’s prime minstrel all the time. Chickenshit smells like a flower compared to the other names Bibi has been called.
So what’s going on? I don’t know. I’m certain that the show is staged, but I don’t know why. Were I to take a wild guess, I’d say that Netanyahu is about to become chicken soup. The Israelis are so sick that they’ll probably swallow it. We’ll all see shortly. Till then, try to look backstage and don’t go sniffing any chickenshit.
“Never underestimate the quality of illusion in the land of Hollywood.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Poem and picture from the book, Natures Jinns by Joel Miller
When winter approaches breathing frost
the trees dress up in warm colors
to entice the wind
to ask the leaves
up for a dance.
After the wildest storm
one leaf remains
alone.
One morning
when heaven holds its breath
the leaf gets hit
by the blush of dawn
and falls slowly to the earth
where it lies listening
to the sleeping forest
pregnant with spring.
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Sweden recognizes the state of Palestine.
The commentator clowns jam the traffic of communication,
discuss the Israeli elephant walking out of the tent,
words tumble and dance a rumble
serious smiles read well phrased insignificance
moving pictures in color spiced with sound
a great circus
a show
about a Palestine state that doesn’t exist
distracting, distracting, distracting
from the Palestinian people
struggling to persist
while Egyptian tanks evict 10 000 inmates of Gaza
to tear down homes for a buffer zone
while Israeli police evict Palestinians of Jerusalem
and devour ever more territory to house Zionista fanatics
shooting teenage boys along the way.
When will Sweden recognize the people of Palestine?
Their right to exist,
to receive guests at their shores,
medicine for the wounds
water for their thirst
justice for their souls?
When will they recognize the right to move
without going through humiliating check-points?
When will Sweden recognize the crimes of Israel?
The big news that is no news
talks about the slimy hypocrites
pretending to help ”the state of Palestine”
while participating in the extermination of Palestinians.
“Their level of morality lies just below shark shit
at the bottom of the darkest ocean.”
Dartwill Aquila
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God, who was all powerful and ruled the world, allowed his son to be tormented, tortured and crucified. What kind of a father is that? Who allows his kid to suffer wretchedness and pain culminating in hours of anguish until death?
Claiming that he did it for our sins doesn’t make things better.
Was that the only way he could deal with the problem? Was that the best solution this infinitely wise person could come up with? Because people were sinners, he would let his son be tortured and killed to help them. I’m getting sadist vibes off of that. And it’s not the first time.
Look how he treated Abraham. He demanded that he kill his son to prove his obedience. Talk about a sadist on a power trip. He seems to have been on a power trip since the beginning. When he had created the first two people, he had one command, ”Don’t taste knowledge!” He demanded that the two people remain ignorant and obedient or he would see to it that they suffered.
And you want me to pray to this guy and show him reverence. Thanks but no thanks. I’m already ignorant, obedient and suffering as a citizen of the North Atlantic Empire. What do I need your god for?
“Have you ever wondered about the language of the first ten commandments?
Moses lived at least 1000 years before any alphabet was developed.”
Dartwill Aquila
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In the latest in a series of reports about the extent and increase of rape, the prestigeous MIT finds that 17% of its student have been raped. The president of the school is ”disturbed” and, like the rest of the staff, surprised.
I’m surprised that they’re surprised. They live in a country that rapes
the environment, justice, equality, truth, health, compassion, security, privacy, honor and any country or people who do not follow its dictates.
Rape can be described as the American way of life.
Judging by MIT’s surprised reaction, it even rapes the quality of knowledge.
“The conservatives want rapists to wear condoms.
The democrats want rapists to provide a choice of positions.”
Dartwill Aquila
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I almost read an article by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship entitled,
Don’t Let Them Silence You: Vote, Dammit. By almost I mean that I read about a third of the article before I vomited mentally. These two priests of the plutocracy want us to get down on our knees at the alter of the Church of Corporate Holiness and swallow the blessing of the ballot. This, they tell us, is the blood and body of democracy. The choir sings Hallelujah Hope in the background.
Excuse me, I’m going to be sick again.
At the beginning of this year a study published by two university professors (Gilens and Page) concluded that the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Decisions of government represent the wishes of the rich and powerful regardless of what the majority of the people want. The professors had discovered academically what 10-year-olds in the hood have known for decades, money talks and bullshit walks.
We need nothing more than our own experience of voting for and electing peace candidates time and time again. Seen any peace lately? See any hope for peace anywhere?
Voting today is a sign of belief. It’s religion, not politics. It says that you have faith in the powers that rule us. Faith in the powers that rule us?
(Sounds of heavy barfing……)
“I believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny,
the Tooth Fairy, the X-Men,
Politicians
and a lady in Shanghai that sent me an email about inheriting her husband’s fortune.”
Dartwill Aquila
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In Biblical times the number 40 was the largest known number and often used as a metaphore for large in general.
Intellectual X has well-functioning mental facilities, is highly educated and well read. He can be considered a grade A example of an intellectual. He prides himself on being intelligent and considers himself well informed because he reads prestigious newspapers daily and “heavy” magazines regularly. Yet, in spite of his merits, he, like many of his peers and almost all Jews, believes the stupid idea that Jews are particularly intelligent.
This simple prejudice can strut openly because of its positive implication. It’s like the singing and dancing ability that even KKKers will attribute to the “darkies”. This positive prejudice is a sticky mess on the flip-side of anti-Semitism. It strengthens the Jewish otherness as a quality of nature rather than culture.
The disproportionate number of Jews in successful positions forms the basis of the intelligent assumption. How could the Jews have achieved so much disproportionate success in intellectual and commercial enterprises if not endowed with prime intellectual abilities?
The Jews don’t constitute a racial group. Consequently, they can possess no extraordinary biological characteristics, mental or otherwise. They can have no inherent mental superiority. Talk of a smart gene belongs alongside flat-earth theories. It’s nonsense.
Intellectual X feels uncomfortable with uncertainty and lacks the knowledge to offer an alternative theory. He therefore swallows the explanation of a smart gene even though it’s historically and biologically impossible.
Three factors explain the disproportionate success of the Jews.
1. Simple Pedagogics
Variations of the following experiment are well known to teaching professionals.
Select 100 equivalent school classes with 30 pupils each. One of the classes, representing 1% of all pupils, should be stocked with gifted children determined by a battery of intelligence tests.
No one should be surprised to learn that the specially selected class of gifted children produces a disproportionate number of pupils with above average results. The class itself has the highest scores of all the other classes.
You now ask, “So what?”
I lied. The designated class had not been chosen for any particular reason. On the contrary, in order for the experiment to give relevant results, the class was selected at random among the 100 classes. But, the pupils were made to believe that they had been selected because of their unique learning abilities. They believed themselves to be above average intelligence and good at learning. The experiment gives equally positive results when the children are told nothing, but the teacher is told (lied to) that the class is specially selected after a series of tests.
Conclusive pedagogic research proves that when students believe themselves to be intellectually superior, they perform better than other classes. Even if the teacher alone believes the class to be superior, the class achieves better than average results.
Extrapolate this pedagogic experiment to society at large. Make 1% of the population believe that they are God’s chosen group, God’s favorite people. This alone should produce disproportionate success from the “chosen” group. Should the remaining 99% of the people be made to believe that they are sinners, the degree of disproportionate success will be even greater.
Today a massive industry engages experts, gurus and charlatans selling books, blogs and consultancy to promote the concept of positive thinking. The Jews have been locked into this affirmative frame of mind long before the think-positive trend came into prominence. This positive mindset has been augmented by a strong culture wrapped in a reverence for literacy and learning as one of the few avenues of advancement in an otherwise discriminatory environment.
A positive mindset and a strong culture embracing literacy and learning could explain the disproportionate success of Jews. There are however other factors at work.
2. Forced into the Future
Since the Middle Ages Jews were allowed (at times encouraged) to settle in different countries at different times but were not permitted to own land. Rural living was off-limits. They were forced to settle in urban areas from a time when these areas were hardly more than harbors, market places or small towns; primitive commercial centers. Historical development favored the growth of trade and towns while diminishing the possibilities for farmers and peasants. Discrimination forced the Jews to live in places destined for development. They were confined to historically advantageous places; imbedded in the opportunities of growing commercial centers. They were motivated to become street smart when streets were little more than boards and stones. Today, other people are street smart. The ways of the cities became second nature to the Jews while 95% of the population were plowing away at the dead-end of peasant life.
Do the Chinese possess a table tennis gene or the Russians a chess gene? How about an Argentinean tango gene? What abilities do city life encourage? Intellectual and commercial enterprises have been common areas of interest among Jews the way table tennis, chess and tango have been part of the Chinese, Russian and Argentinean cultures.
3. Relatively out of the Box
As the Jews didn’t share the culture at large, they were outsiders. That which was self-evident to the general population was not obvious or even understandable to them. Everything around them was questionable and they had little respect for the authorities and customs that the rest of the population followed obediently. As outsiders the Jews were doubters, questioners. They thought “out of the box” because they were out of the box. They were exposed to perspectives that the dominant culture had difficulty seeing.
Einstein is perhaps the best example of the outsider’s perspective. His father enrolled him in a Catholic school. A single Jew in a Catholic school! Is it surprising that he went on to develop a theory of relativity? Wouldn’t a single Catholic child educated in a Jewish school also become keenly aware of the nature of relativity?
Conclusion
These three aspects:
1- the (chosen people) positive attitude in a world of sinners coupled to an intellectual culture
2- discrimination forcing them into centers of development pregnant with opportunities
3- the outsiders questioning perspective and lack of respect for the ruling authorities
more than adequately explains the disproportionate success of the Jews.
It should also be pointed out that the success occurred in the most advanced centers of development. In view of these aspects, one could even suppose that the Jews haven’t been as successful as they could have been. Could it be that the Jews aren’t very bright? There is good cause to assume this. Most of them can’t distinguish between politics and religion, or fiction (the Bible) and reality. How smart is that? And how smart are the intellectuals who attribute such dimness to a smart gene?
“No amount of intelligence can prevent us from doing stupid things.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Saturday rerun from 2012/08/12
You know everything you need to know
to find out anything you want to know.
Life has no secrets,
but doesn’t talk to those who don’t listen
or those who don’t ask
or those who believe their ignorance is holy.
Do not fear your uncertainty.
Embrace it, caress it and whisper its name.
Search its sensitive spots with your eager curiosity
and make it yield, breath by breath,
to your passion for knowledge.
Every spot has hundreds of angles
that change as the day turns, the light bends
and the tide of your mood flows through your intelligence.
Trust no one, trust everyone and respect the respectful.
Life has equipped you with the knowledge of life.
You know that we all know all we’re ever needed to know
about what needs to be known.
Together we know enough to do what needs to be done.
What else do you need to know?
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Can you guess my sign?
“Those who live by the sword shall make enormous profits.
Those who live like sheep shall be slaughtered like sheep.
And the meek (like everyone else) shall wind up in the earth.”
Dartwill Aquila
“Goliath considers anyone in possession of a small stone
or planning to pick up a stone
to be a terrorist.”
Dartwill Aquila
“Maybe if IS claimed that they had a right to defend themselves
they wouldn’t be getting such bad reviews.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle published a review of an article at The Electronic Intifada.
I recommend both the review and the article to anyone interested in the greatest crime of our times, the vicious suppression, destruction and murder of the Palestinian people by Israel, the rabid hound of the American Empire. Under the smoke screen of UK and Sweden’s recognition of the State of Palestine, the UN and the Palestine Authority will guarantee the continued and enhanced subjugation of the Gaza concentration camp. I would title the process, Humanitarianism With Bloody Fangs.
In order to balance this heavy-severe situation in Gaza, read Dmitry Orlov’s article How to Start a War and Lose An Empire about the ”war” between the US and Russia. Orlov’s analysis is brilliant and spiced with laugh-out-loud humor. One quote should convince you.
”Obama is still more popular than Ebola, but not by much.”
“You can’t restore the beauty of a wilted rose
by talking about its glory days.”
Dartwill Aquila
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System Humanity 